Life as Kardama Drogo - 1 (Chapter -5)

I looked more into my personal information. I was inside an apartment that was owned by Kardama Drogo. The apartment is not too big, but it is not small either. A personal bedroom, a training room, two guestrooms, and a big living room. There is also a balcony attached to the living room.

I am on the 52nd floor. I can see the whole city from here. This is one of the tallest buildings I can see, even though there are only buildings and buildings as far as I can see.

The training room is filled with gym and training equipment. No wonder this body is so muscular. He must have trained like crazy every day. I looked into his ID.

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Name: Kardama Drogo

Human: Male 

Born: July 1, 2317

Status: Phoenix Academy Student

Rank: 2897

It turns out that Kardama's parents died when he was young. Because Kardama had good potential, the government took responsibility for raising him.

Everyone here has a potential ranking from G, F, E, to A. Rank G is also called the mortal rank. From rank F to A, it's called 'Awakened' . Then higher rank S, SS, and SSS rank . Those are called 'Supreme' ranks. Anyone with this rank gets the best treatment in any country. They are the highest-level citizens with the most authority. But the potential for supreme rank is very rare. They are one in a hundred million.

And just having potential doesn't mean a person can reach it. Potential is like a mountain. Between two people where one has a big mountain and the other has a smaller mountain, the one with the bigger mountain may reach higher. But if he gets stuck in the middle of his mountain while the other person reaches the top of his smaller mountain, then the one with the smaller mountain got to reach higher.

So having higher potential than someone else doesn't mean you are better than him unless you can reach the rank he can't.

Kardama had the potential for a B+ rank. Although not the highest, it is considered a great talent. One in a hundred is able to reach the F rank. One in thousands can reach E rank. Ten thousand for D rank. Hundred thousands for C rank.

So Kardama has the potential to be one in a million.

But that's only when counting the potential of his body. His potential with magic is near nonexistent.

Potential for body and magic are both different. Someone may be gifted with high magic potential but a weak body. Or the opposite, like Kardama.

Those with higher potential in their bodies walk the path of martial artists. And those with high potential for magic walk the path of the mage. The number of mage is 10% of martial artists. So a mage is more valued than a martial artist.

A martial artist controls elements inside their body, which is called martial arts. Mage control elements outside their body, which are called spells or magic .

I found two different types of art inside the apartment.

Cultivation arts and martial arts

There are two martial arts. Phantom Spirit Swordsmanship And Mirage Slide Footwork

There is one Cultivation art. Morning Glory Breathing Technique

All three of them are rank-three arts. I found out there are many ranks of arts. The higher the rank, the better they are, more expensive and more exclusive as well. I also found out that these three are quite popular among commoners. Commoners have only access up to rank 3 arts. So these are definitely some of the best art in rank 3.

Normally, it takes a commoner ten years to gather the money to buy a rank 3 art after deducting the living expenses. But Kardama's parents also left behind some fortune. So he spent all of his money on three rank-three arts.

After reading all of them, I found out that Phantom Spirit Swordsmanship is a technique that's focused on an opponent's weak points with strong attacks while evading all incoming attacks. It takes both speed and perception.

Mirage Slide Footwork is a technique that focuses on making unpredictable moves. The only flaw is that the speed is rather slow compared to other rank 3 footworks. But when combined with the sword technique, which also focuses on evading this footwork, it becomes deadly.

 So when I see that he was practicing both of them together, I don't think he wasted his money on it. It was spent smartly.

And the last one is a breathing technique. It's ridiculous how just by breathing in a slightly different manner, you can get stronger. The logical explanation behind this book is that it's absorbing the mana from the air to enforce the mana inside the body. In that case, shouldn't we get stronger just by breathing normally as well? After all, we are inhaling the same air no matter how we are breathing it.

But after reading the book and trying it myself, I realised that my way of thinking was wrong. A breathing technique is more like a meditation. Using this technique, a person can accumulate mana and use it to reinforce the body and also quickly breakthrough. It also recover stamina and mana .

I felt very refreshed after using it. Then I got overly excited and also tried using the footwork, which led me to kiss the wall, the floor,and some other furniture. But I didn't give up. I knew that those who don't give up are those who succeed. Finally, after about 3 hours of kissing every wall and expressing my love to every corner of the apartment, I was able to convince myself that I couldn't do it.

This time I was very hungry and opened the fridge. It was filled with mostly meat,packed meatballs,a giant turkey, eggs, and fruit juices.

"I am literally breaking the rules of Transmigration. If I am transmigrated as an orphan, then shouldn't I be like in a poverty? Or in the huge debts left by my parents? Or a sickly weak sister that will die soon if I don't get a certain elixir that every bigshot will fight for? But this guy is literally chilling on his dead parents money without any worry about the anything."

I didn't even have things like 'I must work hard and get to the best Hero Academy', like the transmigrators from the novel. This guy already handled everything very smoothly. Although his seat is not confirmed yet, he is ranked 2897 among the 5000 selected students at the top Hero Academy.

After eating my belly fill, I tried the Swordsmanship. There were many types of training swords here. I grabbed one of it . Let's say this is my first time using the sword, since I have only memories of using it.

I remember the basic first. I don't want to expose that I am immature just by displaying a branch of opening. I first learned how to grab the sword. There are rules on how to grab the sword with one hand and how to grab it with both hands. I learned how to stand, or more like, how to pose. I got used to this certain posture again and again to make sure it looked like I was an expert in everyone's eyes, even though I couldn't use the sword yet.

And no way in hell will I call a random swing a sword attack. If I attack with just a random swing, my opponent will realise that I have many openings. And anyone who is an expert with a sword will realise that I have never held a sword for long. It will be suspicious since Kardama has been practising swords all his life.

So I spend my day eating, practising the footwork, learning how to act like a sword user, and using the breathing techniques to meditate and recover my energy. At night, I did some information research to make myself familiar with this world. Then I slept all night. I repeated the same routine for the next two days as well. Then it was time for me to go to the academy.